Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/Megagenomics/FastProNGS

Toolkit for Automated and Rapid DIscovery of Structural variants

Requirements

zlib (http://www.zlib.net)
mrfast (https://github.com/BilkentCompGen/mrfast)
htslib (included as submodule; http://htslib.org/)
Fetching tardis

git clone https://github.com/BilkentCompGen/tardis.git --recursive

https://github.com/BilkentCompGen/tardis

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/BilkentCompGen/tardis

It is enormous, billions of letters long. Some of those letters are easy to understand because they contain instructions for building proteins, the tiny machines that keep our cells alive.

But what if some of the most important instructions aren't in those obvious chapters?

Scientists have long suspected that the mysterious stretches of DNA between protein-coding genes may contain some of life's most interesting secrets. These regions can act like switches, telling genes when, where, and how strongly to turn on. Among them are conserved non-coding elements, or CNEs DNA sequences that have remained remarkably similar across different species.

Think of a CNE as a sentence that nature has copied into several editions of the same book.

A mouse has it.

A bird has it.

A human has it.

And despite millions of years of evolution, much of the sentence remains almost unchanged.

That conservation is a clue: this piece of DNA probably matters.

But there was a problem. Finding these hidden sentences across enormous genomes is difficult. Researchers needed to compare many genomes, identify conserved regions, and then determine which of those regions might have evolved unusually quickly in particular branches of the evolutionary tree.

Enter CNEwrap. https://github.com/YanCCscu/CNEwrap

The researchers developed CNEwrap as a streamlined toolkit capable of handling large-scale genome comparisons, conserved-element detection, and evolutionary analysis. Inside it is a new algorithm called EvoAcc, designed to identify CNEs that show accelerated evolution in specific species or lineages.

Why does that matter?

Because evolution isn't just about what stays the same.

Sometimes, the most interesting story is hidden in what changed.

Imagine that nearly every species carries the same regulatory sentence, but one lineage suddenly has several unusual edits. Perhaps those changes helped shape a new body structure, a different adaptation, or another distinctive trait.

EvoAcc is designed to help researchers find these evolutionary clues. In the study's tests, it performed particularly well in scenarios involving two or three accelerated lineages and showed improved sensitivity to insertion and deletion mutations compared with several existing approaches.

The researchers also tested CNEwrap using functional genomic regions from mammals and found that EvoAcc could recover human-specific accelerated regions while identifying some signals that other methods missed.

So the story of CNEwrap is really a story about looking beyond the obvious.

For decades, scientists have often focused on the DNA that directly encodes proteins. But the genome is more like a vast library: the protein-coding genes are the main text, while non-coding regions may contain punctuation, instructions, switches, annotations, and editing notes that tell the cell how to read the book.

CNEwrap gives researchers a new way to search that hidden material.

And perhaps somewhere inside those billions of DNA letters is an evolutionary story we haven't read yet.

The exciting part is that we now have better tools to find it.

Read more about it https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/54/14/gkag709/8738333?

Blobsplorer is unlikely to be of use on its own as it requires contig data to be supplied in a format that involves considerable preprocessing (see below for a description). The easiest way to use Blobsplorer is as part of a workflow using scripts from here.

Address of the bookmark: http://nematodes.org/martin/blobsplorer/blobsplorer.html

If you use circlize in your publications, I would be appreciated if you can cite:

Gu, Z. (2014) circlize implements and enhances circular visualization in R. Bioinformatics. DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu393

Address of the bookmark: http://zuguang.de/circlize_book/book/

Address of the bookmark: http://www.cmbb.arizona.edu/?page_id=250

For further details about the original technique see the UpSet website. You can also check out the UpSetR shiny app. Here is the source code for the shiny wrapper.

A Python package called py-upset to create UpSet plots has been created by GitHub user ImSoErgodic.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/hms-dbmi/UpSetR/

Following are the comprehensive list of visualization tools for biological pathways:

BiNA

Drawings of metabolic networks supporting hiding of cofactors and drawing of chemical structures

http://bina.unipax.info/

BioTapestry

Interactive tool for building, visualizing and sharing gene regulatory network models over the web

http://www.biotapestry.org/

Caleydo

Visual analysis framework targeted at biomolecular data. Visualization of interdependencies between multiple datasets

http://www.caleydo.org/

CellDesigner

A modeling tool for biochemical networks

http://www.celldesigner.org/

Edinburgh Pathway Editor

Edit and draw pathway diagrams

http://epe.sourceforge.net/SourceForge/EPE.html

GenMAPP

Visualization of gene expression and other genomic data on maps representing biological pathways and groupings of genes

http://www.genmapp.org/

Ingenuity IPA

Data integration platform and manually annotated pathways

http://tinyurl.com/IngenuityPath

JDesigner

Graphical modeling environment for biochemical reaction networks

http://jdesigner.sourceforge.net/Site/JDesigner.html

KaPPA View

Plant pathways

http://kpv.kazusa.or.jp/

KEGG Atlas

Interactive Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathways

http://www.genome.jp/kegg/

Omix 

Visualizing multi-omics data in metabolic networks

https://www.omix-visualization.com

PathVisio 

Biological pathway analysis software that allows drawing, editing and analysis of biological pathways

http://www.pathvisio.org/

VitaPad 

Application to visualize biological pathways and map experimental data to them

http://tinyurl.com/vitapad/

Web tools for pathways

ArrayXPath 

Mapping and visualizing microarray gene-expression data and integrated biological pathway resources using SVG

http://tinyurl.com/ArrayXPath/

GEPAT 

Integrated analysis of transcriptome data in genomic, proteomic and metabolic contexts

http://gepat.sourceforge.net/

iPath 

Web-based tool for the visualization, analysis and customization of pathway maps

http://pathways.embl.de/

Kegg-Based Viewer 

KEGG-based pathway visualization tool for complex high-throughput data

http://www.g-language.org/data/marray/

MapMan 

User-driven tool that displays large datasets onto diagrams of metabolic pathways or other processes

http://mapman.gabipd.org/web/guest/mapman

MetPA 

Analysis and visualization of metabolomic data within the biological context of metabolic pathways

http://metpa.metabolomics.ca

Omics Viewer 

Data mapping on BioCyc pathways (collection of 5500 pathway/genome databases)

http://www.biocyc.org/

Pathway Explorer

Interactive Java drawing tool for the construction of biological pathway diagrams in a visual way and the annotation of the components and interactions between them

http://genome.tugraz.at/pathwayexplorer/pathwayexplorer_description.shtml

Pathway projector 

Zoomable pathway browser using KEGG atlas and Google Maps API

http://www.g-language.org/PathwayProjector/

PATIKA 

Integrated environment composed of a central database and a visual editor, built around an extensive ontology and an integration framework

http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~patikaweb/

Reactome SkyPainter 

Visualization of over-represented pathways and reactions from gene lists

http://www.reactome.org/skypainter-2

WikiPathways

Wiki-based, open, public platform dedicated to the curation of biological pathways by and for the scientific community

http://www.wikipathways.org/

Address of the bookmark: https://zpicture.dcode.org/